Question

Sony Vaio and wireless networking issue

Asked by: ramleaze

First I need to say I am not an expert so please forgive the question if its obvious I am doing something stupid. I have a netgear wireless router at home which works fine with my work notebook an IBM T20 with an intel wireless card, in fact its totally sound and has never given me any problems. It also worked fine with an old HP notebook from work

The issue comes when I try and hook up the two Vaio notebooks we have. One has a built in orinoco wireless card and the other has Centrino technology. I get the same problem on both which is as follows. The internal wireless icon tell me it has found the wireless network but I cant connect to the internet. When I blunder around aimlessly I always see that the data sent measure looks healthy and active and the data received is always at zero so I guess this must be the issue. Here is what I have tried with no success

I tried turning off the built in wireless and using an external wirless card. That works for a while then the thing falls off and I have the same issue again

Turned off the firewall and tried with no luck to get it running

re-ran xp set up for home networking with no luck

prayed with no luck

Surfing the net I have found other vaio users with similar problems but no solution. Can anyone help a keen enthusiast with limited technical knowledge ?

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2003-06-16 at 16:35:34ID20650187
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by: kronostmPosted on 2003-06-17 at 03:27:14ID: 8739187

 

by: SethHoytPosted on 2003-06-21 at 08:32:04ID: 8772556

I had the same problem with a Sony Vaio and a Netgear router. The Vaio worked fine by itself, but seemed to conflict with other wireless devices on the network. Eventually, I ended up replacing the Netgear router with a D-Link router and it solved the problem. I'm not sure you should run out and get a new router, but it's something to try, especially if you can return the router.

You might also try upgrading the firmware on either the router or the Vaio, but this didn't work for me, so that probably won't do it.

Seth

 

by: kronostmPosted on 2003-06-28 at 08:34:13ID: 8819080

ramleaze...no news from you. Please give us some feedback. If you found the solution, then this Q will help others to solve similar problems serching with google. If some clues we gave you helped, you should accept that answer. If the problem isn't solved, please come back with more Q/details.

Best wishes
Kronos

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